Jonathan Shandell

Jonathan Shandell is Associate Professor of Theater Arts at Arcadia University. His scholarship focuses on race and integration in the American theater in the mid-20th Century. Publications include essays in the volumes The Cambridge Companion to African American Theater, Authentic Blackness/""Real"" Blackenss, and the forthcoming Visions of American Tragedy, as well as in the journals African American Review, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, American Theatre and others. Jonathan served from 2014-2016 as President of the Black Theatre Association. He lives in Elkins Park, PA with his wife, Robin, and daughters Cecily and Miranda.